Carl Gustaf Hellqvist

Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (* December 15 1851 in Kungsör, † November 19, 1890 in Munich) was a Swedish painter.

Life

Hellqvist formed on the Art Academy in Stockholm for a history painter and moved 1878 to continue his studies in Munich, where he in 1879 at the international exhibition by a figure- rich paintings from the Swedish history: shameful collection of the Bishop Sonnanväder and the Provost Knut in Stockholm 1526, witness to a significant power of the characteristic, and a pursuit of serious and dignified color took off.

Even more decisively, these advantages were on a second, in 1881 painted image. The Regent Sten Sture the Elder dies on the ice of Lake Mälaren 1520 In addition, he also painted landscapes, whose motives he brought from Bavaria, portraits and scenes from the life of the people, as z. example, the humorous: Bismarck or Moltke? Luther's arrival at the Wartburg was painted at this time.

1882 Hellqvist moved to Paris, and here he joined at the beginning of the naturalistic direction of Mihály Munkácsy and Jean Paul Laurens at how the 1883 in Munich issued photo: disputation between the Canon bile and Olaus Petri, a disciple of Luther, in Uppsala in 1524 proved.

At the same time he tried to genre scenes, the scene of which is laid in the open air, in the modern French Light painting. In 1885 he painted the Embarkation of the body of Gustavus Adolphus at the Port of Wolgast and the pillage of Wisby by Waldemar Atterday king, and in 1886 he was appointed as a teacher of painting class at the Berlin Academy of Art. He received in 1883 at the Munich International Exhibition a second medal.